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T. M. TAYLOR DRIP SHEET Filed July 23. 1924 2 $heets-$heet 2 Patented May 31, 1927.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

THOMAS HILTON TAYLOR, OF YORK, PENNSYLVANIA, ASSIGNOR T KEYSTONE ROOF- ING MANUFACTURING COMPANY, OEYORK, PENNSYLVANIA, A CORPORATION OF PENNSYLVANIA.

Application filed July 23,

My invention relates to new and useful improvements in drip sheets and has for its principal object the provision of such a sheet which is adapted to be positioned beneath a motor vehicle to catch the drippings of oil or grease and to convey the same for deposit at a distant point or into a suitable receptacle.

A further object of the invention resides in the provision of-a flexible sheet which may be suspended beneath a motor vehicle in such a manner as to form a trough to receive the oils or grease and which may be inclined so as to allow the oils or grease to flow to the end of the same and to be discharged therefrom.

Still another object of the invention consists in providing the sheet with means whereby it may be suspended in a freight car or the like, the corners of the sheet being reinforced to receive eyelets through which the securing means may pass and-eyelets also preferably being provided intermediate the ends of the sheet for receiving securing means.

\Vith the above and other objects in view, which will appear as the description proceeds, my invention consists in the novel details of construction and arrangement of parts described in the following specification and illustrated in the accompanying drawings, and while I have illustrated and described the preferred embodiments of the invention, as they now appear to me, it Wlll. be understood that such changes may be made as will fall within the scope of the ap pended claims.

In the drawings:

Fig. 1 is a erspective showing the bottom of my drip s eet. v

Fi 2 is a perspective showing the top of the rip sheet.

Fig. 3 is an end view showing the drip sheet in position beneath an automobile supportedin a car for transportation, and

Fig. 4 is a side elevation showing my drip sheet in position between automobiles in a car for, transportation.

Motor vehicles are often shipped with one vehicle supported above anot er, and oil or grease W111 dropffrom the upper vehicle onto the lower v cle thereby disfiguring DRIP SHEET.

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the body and top and it is to prevent such oils or greases from reaching the lower car that I provide my improved form, of drip sheet.

In the drawings 1 indicates the body portion of the sheet formed of paper or similar flexible material which is covered or saturated with asphalt or the like whereby the same is made water-proof. The corners of the sheet are bent under the body portion as indicated at 2 and the metal eyelets 3 pass through said turned corners and body to receive the cords 4 or other suitable means whereby the sheet may be suspended. I preferably provide the metal eyelets 5 intermediate the cnds of the sheet, adjacent the longitudinal edgesthereof, and cords 4 or other suitable suspending means also pass through these eyelets.

In Fig. 4 of the drawings I have, illustrated drip sheets in position within a freight car (5, motor vehicles being shown at 7 and 8, the vehicle 7 being supported in the car above the vehicle 8 as illustrated. The sheets will preferably be of a length equal that of the vehicle beneath which it is to be suspended and as shown more particularly in Fig. 4 of the drawings when there are two sheets suspended within the car they will be downwardly inclined, in opposite directions, towards the center of the car and will be suspended in such position by means of the cords 4 or other suitable suspending members. The '0ll. or grease which drops into the sheets will be directed downwardly to flow from the inner ends of the sheets either between the lower vehicles or into a receptacle provided for that puroose.

The sheets being of paper or other suitable flexible material when suspended with in the car will sag in the middle to provide a trough like formation as indicated at 9 and preferably the lower end of the sheet will be allowed-to sag, in the center, a

greater distance than the outer end, or that end adjacent the end of the car, so that at the lower end the trough will be of a greater an le as shown at 10, than at the op osite en to allow the oil or grease to flow reely from the sheets and be deposited adjacent the transverse center of the car and thereby allowing the oil or grease to How to a single point;. preferably ad'arent the transverse the oil or grease to flow therein.

' From the above... detail description it will lie-seen that l have provided'novel-means, in the form of a ilcxible'sheet, for catching the. oil or grease whichinight drop from a vehicle aml l'or a-llowing-said oils orgrease to flow to such a point that it will notdrop upon another vehicle supported thereunder. As hasbeen stated the sheet ispreferablyformed of paper or other flexible material which is covered or, saturated with asphalt" said .sheet being made of readily flexible and. as the sheets are adapted to befsus pended by cords or other suitable means the said cords may be so adjusted as to allow the sheets to he inclinedlongitudinally' and sag-transversely so toprovide' a t1'ough,:the oil orgrease flowing towards.

the lower end of the sheets to be deposited ceive' the eyelets reinforces the sheets at these points so that they will not be torn'and: the

in the imaniier :setforth, It willbe understood "that the sheets may' be of anyydosired lengths and that any number of such sheets may housed-accordin to the number of vehicles supported 'Wltliili the car.

By folding the: corners of the sheets to reintermediate eyes, adjacent the longitudinal edges of the sheet will allow for suspensionat these points to prevent sagging of the sheets intermediate the ends, -The sheets may be cheaply constructed so that, if de sired, after a single use they may be destroyed or being water-proof they may be cleaned and used over a number of times. \Vhile I have described the sheet as primarily intended for suspension bcneath a motor vehicle or the like it will be understood that, if desired, it me be used in various places, such as on t e floor of a show room," garage or the like, to receive oil or grease drippings from the vehicle.

Having fully described my invention what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letbeneath a motor vehicle or the like in such 'a manner as to assume a trough-like form,

'of. paper treated with asphalt to make the same water or oil proof,

4. A drip sheet adapted to be sus ended beneath a motor vehicle or the like ormed of water or oil-proofpapers and provided with reinforced perforated corners.

5. A drip sheet adapted for temporary or emergency use formed of water or oil proof papein.

6. As an article of manufacture, a drip "sheet, formed of water or oil proof paper and having its corners folded to extend parerfoolded allcl with the body portion thereof. rations being formed through the corners and aligned body portions.

In testimony whereof I hereunto atlix my signature.

THOMAS MILTON TAYLOR. 

